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    A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear.

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    As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner.

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    Breathing is underrated.

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    Cheeks are a measure of one's authority, and my high cheekbones indicate an assertive, ambitious nature. They were a gift from my mother, and I am proud of them, even though men shy away from women with that attribute.

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    Don't you get too greedy, Death. You already have taken more than your fair share today. You can't have me yet.

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    I am crossing back to the opposite side -- Mercy the Fearsome is not stupid -- but if I let the Italian cow me, I show him and anyone watching that we can be pushed around like the dogs they think us to be.

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    I am reminded of the proverb about the man with a single teacup to fetch water for his plants. In order to keep some alive, he had to let others die or run himself ragged. I have chosen to water this particular plant despite all its thorns, and I must simply hope my relationship with Tom can survive my absence.

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    I can almost see him now, fishing out an eggshell from a bowl of crached eggs with a patient, steady hand, practicing tranquility during the small things so he’d be ready when the bigger things come along.

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    I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.

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    I misjudge and our teeth collide, but he gently corrects course instead of pulling away. When he kisses me back, all the hurt inside me floats to the surface and somehow drains away. It makes me want to laugh.

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    I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don't intend to start today.

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    I never said you didn't have a heart. But it would be nice if it beat every now and then.

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    I scold the worries away. As Ma likes to say, you cannot control the wind, but you can control your sails.

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    I think …” I say slowly, “’God makes our bodies want to live, no matter what our minds want to do.

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    I've never thought too hard about my convictions and wonder if it's too late now.

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    Living people are a dying breed.

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    Many, including my late grandfather, fled the mother country because of economic hardship from the Opium Wars. England coerced China into accepting the black tar in payment for tea and cracked China open like a ginkgo nut. Old injuries still itch.

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    Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.

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    There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.

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    Though grammatically perfect, a French accent stretches his English out of shape.

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    We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do.

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    What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

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    You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

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    You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.

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    You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts.